2017

Biography Dr. R. Scott Shumate is the CEO and founder of Valutare, LLC. Scott has 33 years of national security experience with both the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer and the Department of Defense with the Counterintelligence Field Activity as a Senior Executive level director of Behavioral Science support to the departments […]

Biography Megan Stifel is an attorney and the founder of Silicon Harbor Consultants, a firm that provides strategic cybersecurity operations and policy counsel. She currently serves as Director for Cybersecurity Policy at Public Knowledge and is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative. She previously served as a Director for […]

Biography Richard Thieme (www.thiemeworks.com) is an author and professional speaker focused on the deeper implications of technology, religion and science for twenty-first century life. He speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. His speaking generally […]

Biography Dr. Yongge Wang is a professor at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Wang has published extensively on research topics including algorithmic information theory, cryptography, and post-quantum security. Dr. Wang has proved several classical results in modern effective randomness research which are included as the fundamental theorems in most Algorithmic Information Theory graduate textbooks. Dr. Wang is […]

Biography Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast. In 2002, Jeff co-founded and became CEO of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative consulting company focused on application security. Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as the Chair […]

Biography Adrian Wood is a penetration tester with experience in network, application and physical security across multiple industries and platforms, currently employed at a large financial institution conducting application penetration testing. Previously he was the founder at WHITEHACK, an Australian information security consultancy specializing in penetration testing, before its sale to a large advisory group. […]

Biography Tin Zaw has served as Verizon Digital Media Services’ director of global security solutions since 2015. He and his team provide managed and professional web security services for clients web properties. He launched the services during his first year at Verizon and continues to grow the operations each year. Prior to joining Verizon, Zaw […]